Encore: The Challenges of LEGAL Marijuana
July 21, 2016
Hosted by Mitchel Winick and Stephen Wagner, with Michael Cohen
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Episode Description
Co-hosts Stephen Wagner and Mitchel Winick take on the controversial topic of legal marijuana. Program guest Chris Halsor has been on the front lines of Colorado’s trailblazing foray into legal marijuana and has developed an expertise in the complicated facets of legal marijuana. Legal marijuana is more than the prospect of large tax revenues and the ability to buy an ounce of pot. Marijuana advocates have created very effective campaigns that are changing public attitudes. Halsor believes that legalization of both medical & recreational marijuana is on the verge of a tipping point and will likely spread world-wide within the next 10-15 years. Instituting and implementing legalization for a drug that has been unlawful for decades - and remains so at the federal level - is more complicated than the headlines would have you believe.
Wagner and Winick On the Law
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Wagner and Winick On the Law is the talk radio program for individuals interested in contemporary legal issues, social policy, and the protection of personal rights within our legal system. Co-hosted by law school President and Dean Mitchel Winick and law professor and trial attorney Stephen Wagner, the program features live interviews with lawyers, judges, business professionals, and policy experts discussing legal issues that affect our daily lives. Guest co-host law professor and attorney Michael Cohen adds an international law dimension in his bi-weekly program segment “International Crossroads”. As the hosts remind listeners every week, "If you don’t know the law, know a lawyer!"
Mitchel Winick and Stephen Wagner, with Michael Cohen
Stephen Wagner and Mitchel Winick have broadcast together as co-hosts since Wagner and Winick On the Law began broadcasting in 2014 on KSCO AM 1080, one of the nation’s leading independent talk radio stations. Michael Cohen has joined the program as a regular guest co-host and as producer of the special segment, “International Crossroads”.
Mitchel L. Winick is the President and Dean of Monterey and San Luis Obispo Colleges of Law. Winick’s thirty-year career has included legal education, law, and business. A former Assistant Attorney General of Texas, Winick has served as V.P. of a publicly traded company, senior partner in a management consulting firm, and co-founder of a venture capital firm.
Stephen Wagner serves as a law professor at San Luis Obispo College of Law and as a trial deputy, specializing in vehicular homicide cases, with the San Luis Obispo County DA's Office. As a law professor, Wagner teaches Criminal Law and Evidence. He is a former prosecutor with the California District Attorney’s Association and the San Benito DA’s Office.
Michael Cohen is a law professor and a partner with Sheppard Mullin's Antitrust and International Competition Practice Group. Cohen hosts the bi-weekly “International Crossroads”. Starting in law enforcement as an Assistant Special Prosecutor, Cohen has spent more than two decades defending multinational clients across the globe. Cohen teaches Constitutional Law and Business Organizations at Monterey College of Law.
